Breastmilk Chronicles
Imagine going to pick up your breastfed infant on her first day of school. You were a little nervous to begin with because she was used to the bottle at first but things got pretty hectic and you stopped being as committed to pumping your milk. So you work up the nerve to pump 6-5oz bags of milk for her the week prior but you feel confident she won't need all of that. You arrive at the school and they hand you 1 of those bags of milk and you ask "Did she really drink all of that milk!?!" to which her teacher replies, "Oh no, she only drank like 1 oz every time." "Where's the rest of my milk then?" "Oh it's our policy to discard it after an hour." That's right! This is something that actually happened to me. My newborn was getting readapted to the whole bottle phenomenon and she only drank 1oz per bottle on her first day, and the following days after she went to 2oz and out of nowhere 3oz within a matter of weeks! This led to